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As well as reporting on industry news and the latest trends, UKIE ensures true and accurate representation of the interactive entertainment industry in the media. Facts and figures on the games industry can be viewed here.

UK games industry trade body Ukie have taken more than thirty five UK companies to this year’s GDC San Francisco to showcase the best of British games talent at the show. The exhibiting businesses will demo their games and products on the official UK industry stand, giving them discounted and easy exhibitor space and marketing support at the expo.

Friday 13th February 2014 - Creative England announces FREE marketing workshops for South West and West Midlands SME games businesses, run in partnership with Ukie.

Creative England has joined forces with Ukie, the trade body that aims to support, grow and promote the UK’s games and interactive entertainment industry, to deliver a series of free marketing training workshops.

The workshops are open to SME games businesses based in the South West and the West Midlands and are fully subsidised by the Creative England GamesLab programme.

13th November 2014 - London, United Kingdom – Games and interactive entertainment industry body Ukie makes series of recommendations to the Chancellor for further support for the UK’s games industry, ahead of next month’s Autumn Statement.

Ukie and Nesta launch second wave of games industry mentoring programme

23rd October 2014 - London, United Kingdom – Games businesses invited to apply for mentoring.

After the success of the first cohort of the Video Game Mentoring Network scheme, which saw eight games businesses start the programme earlier this year, Ukie have once again partnered with Nesta to match businesses with experienced games industry mentors.

More than 270 students and developers attend the first student and indie games conference

Wednesday 22nd October 2014 - London, United Kingdom – Ukie partners with Epic, Overclockers UK, Flix Interactive and Staffordshire University to deliver the first student and indie game conference. More than 20 industry experts gather to speak to over 270 independent and aspiring developers about a wide variety of business focused talks.

Ukie announces new Board members and two new initiatives for the UK games sector

Friday 26th September 2014 - London, United Kingdom – Businesses of all sizes make up new Ukie Board of Directors, trade body Ukie announces at the EGX expo, with 25% female representation. Ukie also formally announces two new initiatives, including the Digital Schoolhouse Programme to revolutionise the teaching of programming in schools

Thursday 25th September, London, United Kingdom -Nesta and Ukie publish first ‘big data’ based mapping of the UK’s games industry. Explosion of new games companies gives industry 22% YOY growth

The true value of the UK games industry has been unlocked by big data, showing it may be double the size of previous estimates. A map of the UK games industry is published today by Nesta in partnership with Ukie to map the industry’s value, shape and size.

Thursday 18th September 2014 - London, United Kingdom – Ukie joined forces with Byron Atkinson-Jones, Green Man Gaming and Unity to host the first “Untied” conference aimed at Unity developers.

What started as an open conversation on Twitter has culminated in the birth of the first ever “Untied” Unity community conference taking place today at Ukie’s London office. More than 90 game developers attended to listen to talks from a variety of speakers about all things Unity and have one-on-one time with companies like Microsoft, Curve, Green Man Gaming and the Unity team.